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Banking on It

CEO Ken Moelis, 59, co-founded investment bank Moelis & Company just as the U.S. economy tanked, and took it public in 2014 with a $163 million IPO.

What did you learn by starting a financial business in the middle of a financial crisis?

There are a thousand decisions, and people waste an inordinate amount of time trying to make the right ones. The thing we did during the crisis was make the best

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